Are the attacks on Christians and churches distraction from Boko Haram’s original objective? Why is Boko Haram attacking mosques and Muslims? Is Boko Haram’s anti-Christian narrative justifiable? This paper attempts to answer all these questions.

Miroslav Volf’s book, Allah: A Christian Response argues that Christians and Muslims believe in and worship the same God, a claim that has generated both praise and scorn at the popular and academic levels

Revd Dr Tess Kuin Lawton explores these issues using a close analysis of official documents and debates during a critical period of inter-faith awareness in the Church of England from 1966-1998, drawing conclusions for the Anglican approach to mission and diversity in the 21st century.

This paper explores the visible symbols that are used to mark religious tribal boundaries and asks whether Christians in the west may feel themselves to be at a disadvantage for lack of visual distinctiveness.

This talk presents doctoral research in 2015-16 with Arab and Western Christians providing support to Syrian refugees living in Jordan, and it explores implications of this encounter for Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and globally.

Despite recurring times of war and unrest in these lands we see in this archive an enduring commitment to the welfare of the whole of society by raising the status of women and girls through Bible based education.

This paper explores the Arab conquest of Egypt, and its immediate aftermath, through two sets of sources: the earliest Christian narrative of the conquest; and a series of spectacular but neglected documentary archives from the first decades of Arab rule.

The paper introduces the work of the research project ‘Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History’, which brings together the known writings by Christians and Muslims about and against one another for the period 600-1914.

Sharing territory between different faith groups is an ever-growing reality of the contemporary world. It happens for a variety of reasons, but can it happen better, and what role does Christian or Muslim faith have to play in that?

This research argues that economic interests rather than religious fanaticism were the main causes for the riot of 1860. Furthermore, it argues that the riot was not a sudden eruption but rather a planned and organised affair.

Ethiopia is considered as one of the cultures which boasts historic peaceful Muslim-Christian coexistence. Part of the reason is that the identity of Ethiopian Islam was more coloured by indigenous culture than by religious ideology.

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